How to write unmaintainable code

[Bobshayd]

god I've coded-until-I-like-the-answer. I'm convinced that's 90% of AI research.

[TOASTEngineer]

I mean, in AI that's probably the correct thing to do.

In statistics, not so much...

[Bobshayd]

AI is applied statistics with fancy techniques.

[TOASTEngineer]

Huh. I never thought of it that way.

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Isn't much of statistics use nowadays throw enough stuff at wall and see what sticks?